A. No current or former member of the board, officer, administrator, staff member, committee member, examiner, representative, agent, employee, consultant, witness or any other person serving or having served the board shall bear liability or be subject to civil damages or criminal prosecutions for any action or omission undertaken or performed within the scope of the board's duties.
B. All written and oral communications made by any person to the board relating to actual and potential disciplinary action shall be confidential communications and are not public records for the purposes of the Inspection of Public Records Act [Chapter 14, Article 2 NMSA 1978]. All data, communications and information acquired by the board relating to actual or potential disciplinary action shall not be disclosed except to the extent necessary to carry out the board's purposes or in a judicial appeal from the board's actions.
C. No person or legal entity providing information to the board, whether as a report, a complaint or testimony, shall be subject to civil damages or criminal prosecutions.
History: 1978 Comp., § 61-6-34, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 269, § 30; 1994, ch. 80, § 12.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1994 amendment, effective May 18, 1994, added "current or former," added language beginning with "officer" and ending with "served the board," added "or omission," and substituted "scope of the board's duties" for "proper functions of the board" in Subsection A.